Andreas Kähäri <andreas.kah...@abc.se> writes:
Well, that's one way to control this trainwreck of a script;
just say
that any name containing "inappropriate" characters aren't
allowed!
May I ask why you don't simply use rsync(1) (or even
openrsync(1) from
the OpenBSD base system)?
i'm not sure why you're addressing this to me, as i'm not the OP.
That said, yes, minimising the extent to which certain non-'word'
characters (i.e. roughly the POSIX 'alnum' class as described in
re_format(7)) _can_ make it easier to programatically do certain
tasks which are restricted by the long and messy history of C and
Unix development. Given that i've been using computers for a few
decades, i still instinctively don't use spaces in filenames, even
though they're very much allowed. But of course, that's not what
most of the world does, and this is an example of trying to work
out what the best tradeoffs might be when dealing with the
messiness of the real world.
Alexis.
